reason808, post: 22483, member: 831 wrote:
This could be a separate thread, but: do you guys know if there’s any way to batch select and delete low bit-rate mp3’s in the OSX finder? I can’t find a utility or workflow to do this. I incorrectly burned my classic soul CD’s at 128kbps, and they’re floating all over my hard drive. I could make a smartlist in iTunes, but “Show in Finder” will only work on a single file (as far as I know). I tried using OSX smart folders & custom search criteria but the bitrate option doesn’t have any filtering capacities. It’ll show everything or nothing. Augh!
Hey reason, you might have already thought of this but this is how I’d do it:
iTunes > Preferences > Advanced , I’d let iTunes keep my iTunes media folder organized (I already do)
Make my smart playlist, Bitrate > is less than > 130 kb/s ?
Double check the playlist, I found lots of old hip hop that I didn’t want to delete.
Then delete either using iTunes or in the finder. Unfortunately iTunes makes this step even more difficult since you can’t delete straight from the playlist, so I would select all songs to delete (or maybe even select all and then deselect the ones I want to keep) change the album name to something I definitely wouldn’t otherwise have, [Justin Bieber’s Greatest Hits š ], search for that in the main music playlist in iTunes and delete from there (remembering to delete from harddrive).
This is of course if you let iTunes organize your music folder.
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